I must admit, I did like Matt Smith as the Doctor, he certainly made it his own...but Tennant was by far my favorite. He could portray massive amounts of emotion without uttering a single word.

From what I have seen (One episode, where they have to rob a bank, and have no idea why because their memories have been wiped), Peter Capaldi isn't all that brilliant...but I shall certainly give him a chance and watch some more of his, even if it is for no other reason than "Hey...It's a Dr Who episode I have never seen) lol

I remember seeing him on one of the talk/variety shows maybe in the 60s. If not The Mike Douglas Show it was something similar. He told a charming story about being in a street gang at 5 years old. His job was to drop his bag of marbles on a department store floor. and start crying. While the employees helped the poor little kid retrieve his marbles his confederates ripped off the merchandise.

Christopher Eccleston for me, although Peter Capaldi does a good job. Admittedly, I don't know the first seven Doctors, I started with the "movie".Smith and Tennant seem to be "female-supported" Doctors, preferred by girls because they're, optically, handsome. I guess that doesn't fit what Doctor Who is about. It's not "Sherlock"!

(Do the non-canonical Doctors count? There was a Rowan Atkinson one...)

He was lined up long before anyone knew there was going to be a next doctor. In one of the Doctor Who specials that aired on BBC America it was also revealed that it was decided the role was going to be offered to him even before he came in to audition. The story goes that he came in to audition only because he grew up watching the show & loving it as a kid. He figured they were going younger and younger with the Doctors in the new series so he thought he didn't have a chance.

He even told the producers that and they had to struggle to keep straight faces.

For me, though, my favorite doctor is David Tennant. I didn't really care for him at first, but warmed to him slowly. It wasn't until the Human Nature/Family of Blood two-part episodes that really cemented it for me, though. Tennant brilliantly conveyed that the Doctor, while usually quite eccentric and carefree, could also be as cold and deliberately cruel as needed in order to stop a threat. Those episodes really added a new layer and dimension to the Doctor for me. More accurately, the last few minutes of the second episode did.

It showed that if you really get him mad, he will finish you and not in a merciful way.

Favourite villain (there can only be one): The original The Master - "You will obey me. You WILL obey me. You WILL obey ME."

Favourite official doctor: Troughton, followed by Smith and McCoy, then Hartnell.

Least favourite: Colin Baker, then Davison.

Of the "modern" era: Ecclestone was okay; Tennant started good but the stories descended into the maudlin (his farewell, in particular); Smith re-injected zanieness(?); and I have high hopes for Capaldi.

I've been watching since the start, by the way. We are all children of our time.

Favourite villain (there can only be one): The original The Master - "You will obey me. You WILL obey me. You WILL obey ME."

Favourite official doctor: Troughton, followed by Smith and McCoy, then Hartnell.

Least favourite: Colin Baker, then Davison.

Of the "modern" era: Ecclestone was okay; Tennant started good but the stories descended into the maudlin (his farewell, in particular); Smith re-injected zanieness(?); and I have high hopes for Capaldi.

I've been watching since the start, by the way. We are all children of our time.

Very astute statement. I've held things in high regard... but when I went back and looked at them with a critical eye, realized they were no better nor worse than what was currently going on. Perspective and context I think are what make that statement very true.

The thing I could never wrap my head around was the concept of The Doctor as the last of a race of Time Lords. I mean, if these guys are always scampering around in the centuries how are there not any of them left around even if they got killed in the future?

The thing I could never wrap my head around was the concept of The Doctor as the last of a race of Time Lords. I mean, if these guys are always scampering around in the centuries how are there not any of them left around even if they got killed in the future?

Because there aren't any Time Ladies? (cross-reference Robert E. Heinlein's short story '"—All You Zombies—"' and Mark Twain's answer to the question "What would men be without women?" "Scarce, sir…mighty scarce".)

The thing I could never wrap my head around was the concept of The Doctor as the last of a race of Time Lords. I mean, if these guys are always scampering around in the centuries how are there not any of them left around even if they got killed in the future?

I guess regeneration isn't as much fun as the other form of reproduction.

But anyway, The Doctor is there and The Master. But none of the others even when The Doctor diddybops around in time including like, before they were destroyed? When they pitched the series maybe that was the selling point. But it doesn't make sense.

They weren't destroyed nor killed, they were just moved into a different universe.Technically, The Doctor isn't "the last of the Time Lords", he just happened to be the only one who was outside the Moment's sphere.

They weren't destroyed nor killed, they were just moved into a different universe.Technically, The Doctor isn't "the last of the Time Lords", he just happened to be the only one who was outside the Moment's sphere.

Ok. But if plucking them out removes them from all time then everything they ever did is gone and the jazz about not changing history is kind of moot. Sorry. Don't mean to bog it down in details. I don't see much TV these days and the TV and movies I watched is starting to feel like another universe.

Fortunately I can pick up a Japanese or Korean TV show here and there with English Subs.